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Biography

Michael Chapman has been an academic at the University of Newcastle since 2009. Up until 2013, he was mainly involved in the Masters of Architecture, where he has taught widely in the first year and final year design courses. In 2014 he began teaching into the First Year design studio of the B.Des (arch) for the first time. He is currently the course co-ordinator for Architectural Design 1B (1220), as well as Architectural History and Theory 2 (2203) and works as a tutor and critic in Architectural Design 5B (6230). He is also currently the Head of Discipline (architecture), a supervisor to four post-graduate students and has won numerous awards for his teaching and research. His current research is focused primarily on the crossovers between art theory and architecture, with a particular interest in the historical avant-garde, early modernism and its ongoing influence. More recently, he has been concerned with the broader issues of industrialisation, industrial cities and the urban morphology of ports. In 2010 he was part of a team of three that was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant, worth over AUD$500 000 over four years and in 2012, he was awarded the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship by the Board of Architects in NSW. Michael's creative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Federation Square, the State Library of NSW and the Museum of Melbourne. He is also a director of the architectural practice hrmphrdt which focusses on small scale architectural projects and insertions.

Research Expertisearchitecture, architectural theory, architectural history

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2014

Chapman MJ, '(De)Compositions: Intersections of Architecture and Music in the Abstract Films of Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling', Music in Architecture: Architecture in Music, Center for American Architecture and Design, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78-91 (2014) [B1]

2010

Chapman MJ, 'Agency and automatism: Some strategies of irresponsibility in architecture', Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures, Routledge, London 141-153 (2010) [B1]

In this paper, we explore what architectural practice and, more specifically, the architectural research domain, may gain from the theoretical and methodological premise of anthro... [more]

In this paper, we explore what architectural practice and, more specifically, the architectural research domain, may gain from the theoretical and methodological premise of anthropology and ethnography. The paper explores a historical link between anthropology and architecture as academic disciplines, arguing that the disciplines are aligned through anthropology's search for understanding the conditions of humanity and architecture's role in forming these very conditions. We do not intend to explicate the individual disciplines but are interested in the crossover between the two and, more specifically, what insights anthropology and ethnography may offer to the discipline of architecture. We consider the relationship between anthropology and architecture, as both a research domain and a profession, and question how anthropology-as an approach to research more so than a discipline-can contribute to the advancement of architectural practice and research.

Chapman MJ, 'Against the wall: Ideology and form in Mies van der Rohe's monument to Rosa Luxemburg', Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence: Ninth International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, London, UK (2012) [E3]

Chapman MJ, 'Negative tactics: The architectures of Dada and Surrealism', Material Meanings: The Third Bi-annual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Canterbury, UK (2012) [E3]

2012

Chapman MJ, 'Between the lines: Collage and image as avant-garde strategies in architecture in the 1970s', Nieznane: The Thread to the Unknown: Third International Conference on the Image, Poznan, Poland (2012) [E3]

2012

Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, 'Visualizing place as the suburbs become the 'nearly urban'', Proceedings of the Conference - Designing Place (2012), Nottingham, UK (2012) [E1]

Chapman MJ, 'Cutting edges: Radical peripheries in the architectures of Lissitzky and Richter', Abstracts from the 8th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, Belfast, Ireland (2011) [E3]

Chapman MJ, 'Love is a battlefield: Architecture and desire in the spatial fields of Marcel Duchamp', Field/work: 6th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), Edinburgh, Scotland (2009) [E3]

Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Circularity, Power and the Technologies of Seeing: Panopticism and its Antithesis as Spatial Archetypes of Visual Contraception in Space', Proceedings of the Conference: Wonderground Design Research Society International Conference 2006, Lisbon, Portugal (2006) [E1]